That foreign trade should be fair rather than free.

The executive branch has grown too strong, the judicial branch too arrogant and the legislative branch too stupid.

A better educated electorate might change the reason many persons vote.

...guns do more than protect us from criminals; more importantly, they protect us from the ongoing threat of government.

I'm not a social friend of the Reagans. That's by their choice and by mine. They don't drink enough.

When you have a gutless Congress a lawless president can do pretty much what he chooses.

Freedom is our most precious commodity and if we are not eternally vigilant, government will take it all away. Individual freedom demands individual responsibility.

Government should work to insure the rights of the individual, not plot to take them away.

I sometimes lie awake at night trying to think of something funny that Richard Nixon said.

I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty.

One other thing I think a conservative believes is that the parents, not government, are and should be responsible for the upbringing and behavior of their children.

Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.

Lucy had to guard her reputation - her reputation for sanity - the way that a woman a hundred years before would have had to guard her reputation for virtue.

President Clinton signed a $10 million deal to write a book by 2003. Isn't that amazing? Yes, and get this, not only that, President Bush signed a $10 million deal to read a book by 2003.

Investors aren't willing to accept the idea that we're in an era of lower returns.

I have always smoked and drunk and loved too much. In fact I have lived not too long but too much. One day the Iron Crab will get me. Then I shall have died of living too much.

I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.

Certainly I had a really terrible time with 'Emotionally Weird.' When I finished it, I thought, 'I can't write any more.

I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes.

To me you are stardust sprinkled across a night sky, forever in my dreams, but out of my reach.

Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open.